Barbara Göbl

PostDoc at the Computational Empowerment Lab of the Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna

Research interests
Participatory Design
Serious Games
Digital Educational Technology
Digital Literacy and Computational Empowerment

Academic career
since 2022: Vice-Chair of the IFIP Working Group 14.8 "Serious Games"
since 2021: PostDoc at the Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna
2021: PhD in Computer Science, University of Vienna
2017-2020: Scholarship holder of a DOC-team scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Publications

Göbl B, Baalsrud Hauge J, Duin H. Integrating Participatory Design and Reuse in Serious Game Development. 2026. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-11043-5_50

Weixelbraun PF , Göbl B, Iversen OS, Kayali F. "Listen to the Teachers": Research-Based Personas for Translating Classroom Realities into Actionable HCI Design. 2026. doi: 10.1145/3772318.3791051

Durall E, Sharma S, IIvari N, Shaper MM, Antle A, Veldhuis A et al.. Unpacking Computational Empowerment in Participatory Design with Children: Opportunities, Tensions, and Emerging Questions. 2026. Paper presented at Interaction Design and Children 2026, Brighton, United Kingdom.

Weixelbraun PF , Göbl B , Duvivié M. Game Character Design as a Mirror of Student Perceptions: A Creative Method for Reflection and Assessment in Educational Settings. Constructionism Conference Proceedings. 2025 Jun 24. doi: 10.21240/constr/2025/71.X, 10.21240/constr/2025.X

Jovicic S , Göbl B , Verstappen S , Kayali F. Designing amidst uncertainty: drifting and byproducts in the intersection of anthropology and computer science. CoDesign. 2025;21(2):308-323. Epub 2024 Sept 9. doi: 10.1080/15710882.2024.2396945

Göbl B. Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives on and Strategies for Assessment of Computational Empowerment-based Projects: Assessing Critical, Creative, and Project-Based Approaches to Digital Literacy. 2025. doi: 10.21240/constr/2025/77.X

Kayali F , Dolezal D , Motschnig R , Yüksel Arslan P , Guenther E , Göbl B. Recommendations for the promotion of digital skills into teacher training curricula. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference. Waynesville: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 2025. p. 2792-2795

Weixelbraun PF , Göbl B, Steinböck M, Duvivié M , Kayali F. Discussing the Protagonist Role of Students in Game-Based Learning. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 2024 Oct 15;8(CHI PLAY):1-24. 300. doi: 10.1145/3677065

Kayali F , Motschnig R , Göbl B , Günther EA , Yüksel Arslan P , Dolezal D et al. Empfehlungen zur Integration digitaler Kompetenzen in die Curricula des Lehramtsstudiums. fnma Magazin. 2024 Feb;2024(2):23-25.

Baalsrud Hauge J, van der Spek E, Göbl B, Stefan IA, Söbke H. Are Aesthetics and Accessibility Conflicting Aspects in Serious Games Design? In Figueroa P, Di Iorio A, Guzman del Rio D, Gonzalez Clua EW, Cuevas Rodriguez L, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2024: 23rd IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2024, Manaus, Brazil, September 30 – October 3, 2024, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2024. p. 289-295. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 15192). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-74353-5_22

Göbl B , Günther EA , Kayali F, Frauenberger C. Situating Computational Empowerment in Formal Education: A Multi-Perspective View. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. 2023 Dec;38:100604. Epub 2023 Jul 9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100604

Göbl B , Duvivié M , Jovicic S , Kayali F. Towards Bridging the Gap between Participatory Design and Formal Education. In Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2023. p. 652-656 doi: 10.1145/3585088.3593881

Göbl B, (ed.), Günther EA, (ed.), Kayali F, (ed.). Computational Empowerment in der Praxis: Kreative Zugänge zu Digitaler Bildung in der Sekundarstufe. 2023. 38 p.

Kayali F , Günther EA , Göbl B. Die Bedeutung von Computational Empowerment für die österreichische Bildungspraxis. In Brandhofer G, Wiesner C, editors, Didaktik in einer Kultur der Digitalität: Wirkmächtige Mediendidaktik, zukunftsorientierte Pädagogik. Bad Heilbrunn: Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. 2023. p. 149-162

Göbl B , Kayali F. Game Dev Tycoon: Ein spielerischer und reflektiver Zugang zum Design digitaler Medien am Beispiel von Computerspielen. In Preisinger A, Steinböck M, editors, Digital Citizenship Education: game-based learning als Beitrag zur digitalen Bürger:innenschaft. Wien: edition polis. 2023. p. 26-27. (Zentrum Polis).

Göbl B , Kayali F. Promoting Future Competencies and Empowerment through the Use of Commercial Off-The Shelf Games in Formal Education. 2023. Nordic DiGRA 2023, Uppsala, Sweden.

Göbl B, Baalsrud Hauge J, Stefan IA, Söbke H. Towards Sustainable Serious Games. In Ciancarini P, Di Iorio A, Hlavacs H, Poggi F, editors, Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2023. Springer. 2023. p. 389-396 doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8248-6_36

Göbl B , Jovicic S, Denk N, Wimmer S, Kriglstein S. More Than Just Gameplay: Making a Case for “Let’s Plays” in Education. In CHI PLAY 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. 2022. p. 75-80 doi: 10.1145/3505270.3558327

Kayali F , Günther EA , Göbl B, Comber O, Freiler A, Handle-Pfeiffer D et al. Ergänzung zur Stellungnahme des Zentrums für Lehrerinnenbildung der Universität Wien zum Lehrplan Digitale Grundbildung. Medienimpulse: Beiträge zur Medienpädagogik. 2022 Sept 20;60(3). doi: 10.21243/mi-03-22-05

Denk N, Göbl B. Für einen fixen Platz in unserer Bildungslandschaft. Weiterbildung: Zeitschrift für Grundlagen, Praxis und Trends. 2022 Apr;(4/2022):14-17.